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WhatsApp Video Calling Launched, Vivo V5 Launch, and More: Your 360 Daily

WhatsApp Video Calling Launched, Vivo V5 Launch, and More: Your 360 Daily 4s1q3h

By Ravi Sharma | Updated: 15 November 2016 23:38 IST

Highlights

WhatsApp's video calling feature is rolling out to over 1 billion s
Quarterly smartphone shipments in India cross 30 million
Apple reportedly planning a foray into Augment Reality-based wearables

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Here's your 360 Daily, bringing you the biggest technology news of the day - from WhatsApp video calling feature's public rollout to Apple's possible plans for an AR-enabled wearable, and a potential big reveal about the Samsung Galaxy S8, alonng with today's launches. 6a306u

WhatsApp rolls out video calling globally
Putting an end to the beta tests of the feature, 160 million monthly active s, is its biggest market.

Vivo V5 selfie smartphone launched in India
Vivo did not give a release date for the V5 Plus, which has two cameras in the front.

Vivo V5 Plus, on the other hand, has a 20-megapixel front camera with a ‘Moonlight Glow’ flash meant to improve lowlight performance. The smartphone also has a 5.5-inch screen, 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750 chipset, 4GB of RAM, fingerprint sensor, and a 3000mAh battery.

India’s Q3 smartphone shipments over 30 million, says IDC

Smartphone shipments in India in the July-September quarter Reliance Jio were the top brands for the quarter. The rate of people upgrading from feature phones to smartphones, however, slowed down this quarter, IDC said.

iPhone allegedly burns woman as she sleeps
A woman iPhone 7 but did not get a response. It was only after the case was highlighted by the media thanks to her Facebook post that Apple approached her, she says, and tried to find out how she was. Apparently, she was offered another iPhone, which she refused to take.

Samsung Galaxy S8 said to have iPhone’s 3D Touch-like display
Samsung will iPhone 6s, and can distinguish between light taps and long-presses to provide separate functionalities for each on the same menu. Samsung Display may supply the pressure-sensitive touchscreen s to be used in Galaxy S8.

‘World’s thinnest laptop’ Acer Swift 7 comes to India
launched in India at Rs. 99,999. The laptop has a 13.3-inch screen with 1920x1080 pixel resolution & Gorilla Glass 5 protection, is powered by the seventh-generation Intel Core i5 processor, s up to 8GB of RAM, and weighs just 1.1kg.

Apple’s next big project may be AR-based wearable glasses
Augmented Reality elements. The device may launch in 2018.

iOS 10.2 could bring India-only SOS buttons to the iPhone
With iOS 10.2 beta 3, Apple has made the adopted in India starting January 1, 2017); you can add more phone numbers to your emergency s list.

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